Season 5: Episode 7 - Nerdy Fall Favorites + Author Courtney Gould

Hello fellow nerds! Join us for today's episode as we discuss the following:• Buffy, ghosts at Deb's house and amusement parks • Twilight, campy fall movies, horror nostalgia and our fave fall books • Release news• What we are reading, watching and loving• Our Nerdiest Thing of the week Stay tuned at the (64:00) mark for our interview with Courtney Gould! Courtney Gould writes books about girls, ghosts, and things that go bump in the night. Her debut novel, THE DEAD AND THE DARK, came out Summer 2021 from Wednesday Books and won the Leslie Bradshaw Award for Young Adult Fiction. Her second novel, WHERE ECHOES DIE, hit shelves in 2023 and her next YA novel, WHAT THE WOODS TOOK, is forthcoming in December. Her writing is featured in Indie Bestselling anthology THE GATHERING DARK and in  the forthcoming THE HOUSE WHERE DEATH LIVES. She graduated from Pacific Lutheran University in 2016 with a Bachelor’s degree in Creative Writing, Publishing, and Marketing. She now lives in Salem, OR where she continues to write love letters to small towns and haunted places. Join us as we find out more about Courtney’s books, the weirdest thing she has had to research for a book, what mimics are, and her nerdiest thing of the week! Show links: Can’t Help Falling in Love  Perfectly Wicked  The Night Circus  If It Makes You Happy  Her Favorite Jack-O-Lantern  The Graveyard Book The God of the Woods Sleep Tight  Pretty Poisoned Off-Campus Series Slewfoot Buffy the Vampire Slayer  Twilight movies Twilight soundtrack Riley Sager Midnight Mass ONT Midnight Mass Dense Bean Salads  Mint and Lily  Jeff Arcuri Nightmare Before Christmas Coraline The Lost Boys The Sacrifice Accidentally Amy Mayfair Witches Emily in Paris Truly, Madly, Deeply Night Owls Such Lovely Skin A Dark and Drowning Tide What the Woods Took The Amityville Horror Interview with the Vampire  Bird Box The Girl with All the Gifts Her Soul to Take  Butcher and Blackbird  From Blood and Ash The Bridge Kingdom Manacled The Invisible Lie of Addie Larue Ready or Not Buffy  Scream The Cabin in the Woods Ghostbusters Army of Darkness Donnie Darko Join us on Thursday for our read along episode of Butcher & Blackbird, chapters 13-15!Join our instagram channel for even more in depth nerdiness!Watch this episode via our studio feed on YouTube! Link in bio.Catch up on previous seasons of the show by visiting ournerdiestthing.com or by searching for Our Nerdiest Thing wherever you listen to podcasts.Have something nerdy to share? Message us!